Carriage-spring



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A. GONNER.

CARRIAGE SPRING.

No. 259,371. Patented June13, 1882.

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NITED STATES ATENT rien.

CARRIAGE-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,371, dated June 13, 1882.

Application filed March 13, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED (Joanna, of Exeter, in the county of Roekingham, of the State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Springs for VVheel- Carriages; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, which is a top View of a spring of my improved kind as applied to the axle and perch of a carriage, the body of said carriage being to rest directly on one or apair of such springs, or indirectly thereon by levers or other proper devices.

The nature of my invention is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

In the said drawing, A A denote two slides, connected by a flexible band or metallic bandspring, B, arranged between and in line with them, as shown. These slides extend through and slide freely in the cross-heads a a of two yokes, G 0, one of which is pivoted or hinged, asshown at l) b, to the axle D, and the other to the front bar, 0, of the perch E. \IVithin each yoke, and encompassing its slide A, is a spiral spring, F, which bears against the head a, and a washer, e, thatrests against a nnt,f, screwed on the slide, all being arranged as represented. On the band or spring being pressed downward atits middle the two spiral springs will be contracted, and with the yokes (No model.)

will move downward, the whole forming an elastic support for the carriage-body.

The said combination of the two yokes, springs, slides, and the band or spring connecting such slidesconstitutes an excellent substitute for a thorough-brace for a stagecoach, and answers also as a useful support for the body of a lighter carriage or pleasurewagon.

I amaware of the carriagesprings shown in the United States PatentNo. 2,484. They differ materially from mine, inasmuch as in one case a rigid rod is used in place of the flexible band or spring B of my invention.

I am also aware of the mode of supporting a carriage-body as shown in the United States Patent No. 98,207, it consistingin spring-bars curved upward near their ends, and there provided with books, and also with wires wound about such books, all of which differ materially from my in rention. it

What I claim, therefore, is

Thecombination oftheflexibleband or spring B with the two yokes G, and with the two connectionslides A and two spiral springs, F, ar-' ranged within such yokes, as shown and described.

ALFRED GONNER. Witnesses:

HENRY A. SHUTE, Gnonen E. LANE- 

